I'm struggling with something in FFMpeg at the moment... I'm trying to make DNxHD 1080p/24, 36Mb/s MXF files from a sequence of PNG files. My current command-line is: ffmpeg -y -f image2 -i /tmp...| Super User
So, you want to stream video on the web without dealing with Youtube or other video providers? Where do you even start? Welcome to DIY Streaming Video 101. I’m slowly working on building the infrastructure here for encoding and serving videos myself, and I’m trying to share what I’ve learned. I’m doing everything on Linux, mostly using FFMPEG for video conversion and serving the video myself, from a web server in my house. Obviously, there are many services that you can pay to do this...| All Posts - scottstuff.net
I’m trying to figure out how best to compress my videos for streaming over the web. I’m using FFMPEG for compression, and it has dozens of potentially-useful flags. Looking at random guides and forum posts online, there’s obviously a lot of cargo-culting of compression parameters, and it’s not clear at all to me what the best choices are. Since there’s no authoritative guide to picking options, and in any case it’d vary widely depending on the nature of the videos that you’re en...| All Posts - scottstuff.net
I’ve been working on infrastructure for streaming my own videos, and part of that work is deciding on which video codecs and settings I want to use. There are a bewildering number of options for ffmpeg and there doesn’t seem to be any consensus on what actually works best. I figured that the only way to really know would be to run a set of tests myself and see what the results looked like.| All Posts - scottstuff.net